Design and Implementation

This chapter will introduce the design principles of some key EMQX features, including:

• Clustering

  EMQX has demonstrated impressive performance on a single node, as evidenced by our benchmark tests which achieved millions of connections. However, to ensure reliability and availability, EMQX must scale out by forming a cluster. This chapter discusses the complexities involved in MQTT broker clustering and how EMQX is specifically designed to overcome these challenges.

• Inflight Window and Message Queue

  To improve message throughput and reduce the impact of network fluctuations, EMQX allows multiple unacknowledged QoS 1 and QoS 2 packets to exist on the network link at the same time. These sent but unconfirmed packets will be stored in the Inflight Window until an acknowledgment is complete. When the length limit of the Inflight Window is reached, these packets will be stored in the Message Queue. This section will introduce the design principles and the relevant configuration items.

• Message Retransmission

  Message Retransmission is part of the MQTT protocol specification. This section will introduce the basic configuration, protocol specification, and design.

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